A project designed to demonstrate procedures for systematic examination of individual rates and accuracy of progress by young TMR children (CA 10-14) in selected beginning reading programs was conducted in selected public schools in Carmichael, California and Honolulu, Hawaii. During the year of instruction, nearly all of the 60 participating TMR students demonstrated some capacity to profit from reading instruction with some advancing to conventional reading programs.
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